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Disbursement of Aid

Financial aid funds must be used first to pay university tuition and fees and then
to university housing, and other institutional educational expenses. Once you have
registered, your university Statement of Account will be available. Your online statement
will show instructional and general fees, health insurance, room and board, and other
appropriate charges. Financial aid awards will appear as credits. All fees, including
penalties, must be paid according to the deadline indicated on your Statement of Account.
Funds must have been received by the university, including outside scholarships or
loans before a disbursement is made.

Conditions for Aid to Disburse:

Your application for financial aid must be complete. View any missing requirements
in the "My Requirements and Eligibility" section of Financial Aid on your SSB.

You must meet all Satisfactory Academic Progress requirements. You may check your financial aid Satisfactory Academic Progress on
your SSB in the "My Requirements and Eligibility" section of Financial Aid.

Funds must have been received by the university, including outside scholarships or
loans.

Timing - Funds will not appear on your account before the beginning of the semester.
The disbursement process will continue daily throughout the registration period.

Financial Aid Eligibility Checks

Please be aware that you must fulfill certain criteria of enrollment status and eligibility
to receive your financial aid funds. Your eligibility is initially checked when aid
is posted to your Statement of Account for the term and is monitored on an ongoing
basis. Aid which was initially credited to your Statement of Account for which you
cease to be eligible will be withdrawn. Eligibility checks include incomplete verification,
SAP status, and being in default or owing a refund to a financial aid program.

If you are ineligible for any of the aid originally credited to your account, you
will be responsible to pay, by the deadline date, those charges which were covered
by that aid on your original Statement of Account.

Payment Process

If your financial aid award appears on your Statement of Account and all else remains
the same, it will credit toward your charges and any overage, a credit balance, will
be directed to you for other educational expenses including off-campus housing. Credit
balances (the credits exceed the charges on your account) can be made available to
you in the form of a check.

Reductions in Disbursed Aid

If the Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships determines that you are no
longer eligible to receive aid that has already been disbursed to you, you may be
asked to repay it. This is a result of the continuous, ongoing eligibility and reconciliation
checks that the Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships performs for all
aid programs to ensure that funds are going only to students eligible to receive them.
If necessary, a recovery of disbursed funds from you will take one of the following
forms:

1. The Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships may reduce your aid for the
current term to make your award consistent with your eligibility status. This reduction
would take the form of a reduced credit placed on your account that may increase your
personal financial obligation for university charges. (In rare circumstances, a recovery
of prior term aid is necessary. In this case the reduction would take the form of
a charge placed on your current term account that may increase your personal financial
obligation for university charges.)

2. The Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships may reduce future disbursements
of aid to make your award consistent with your eligibility status. This reduction
might result in an increase of your personal financial obligation for university charges
for those terms.

3. The Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships may initiate a charge to be
applied to your account. An increase in your personal financial obligation will increase
the amount you owe for university charges (or reduce your credit balance). If you
have insufficient credits to cover your charges, you will receive a bill from Student
Accounts for the balance due.